20 Aug 2010

Building starts today. Everything for the project arrived intact and we have met lots of friends already. Unfortunately Italy can sometimes be a bit like a police state. Kids are strictly forbidden from the Biennale area due to security (read insurance). We have to smuggle Pelle in, sleeping in a card board box. More about this project tomorrow.

19 Aug 2010

We want to make a room that changes, indicating more an action plan than a fysical structure. The space is priveided with some infrastructure that all groups can create different settings with, including square desks, 40 white Chinese plastic stools, a greenhouse and a 20metre sitting ring.

How do you handle the Nordic pavillion? How can you make an exhibition that aids the perception of Sverre Fehns building, without surrendering to it? With small tricks like the waxy silver paper that reflects the roof construction, we want to instigate something that is out of it, that is a world of its own , and therefore leaves the pavillion intact.

Our blog is up, and the Nordic pavillion is still empty. We have created a simple Blogger blog that all our invited teams may use to continuously post activities as they occur. Each post shows a foto or film. Click on the image, and you will be transferred to its original, on our pages on either Flickr or Vimeo.

at work with

At Work With is a project focusing on architecture as practise. Initiated by Economy (Tor Lindstrand) and Testbedstudio (Anders Johansson and Erik Wingquist), it takes the form of an office environment with a residency program during the three months in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. At Work With is conceived as a workspace for seminars, screenings, discussions, displays, practices, projects, meetings, modelling, projections, provocations, interactions, broadcasts, dreams, cooking and whims. Constructed as a continuous staging of meetings between practitioners and visitors, it is a working office as well as a social meeting point that emphasizes exchange and conversations about architecture. The project was commissioned by the Swedish Museum of Architecture.